Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The US economy has recovered nicely. A 2014 UCLA study found that many black and Latino students face almost total isolation from white and Asian students and middle-class peers. Much more Saudi oil wealth has gone into pernicious causes over the last 30 years

Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: The real danger comes from the official institutions who have lapsed into empty ritualism and contrivance while the global economy and financial system becomes more unstable by the day. No sane person would inject $95 billion of new debt into busted Greece, or consider another round of fiscal stimulus

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: History shows that the more countries integrate within the global community, the less incentives they have to be spoilers. Iran and the US share common interests on the threat from ISIS, the stability of Iraq and Afghanistan. The most successful and dominating countries in

Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: Germany has set fire to the Eurozone in order to save it. Lending another $96 billion to a bankrupt country makes no sense, while the fiscal targets set for Greece are ridiculous. Greece has a de facto public debt of $400 billion vs. $200 billion of GDP. Within days the

Salient to Investors: Tyler Durden writes: The IMF has admitted Greece has an unsustainable debt problem. French PM Hollande’s sole focus in the Greek crisis was to preserve near-term stability and his job at any cost – he is guaranteed to lose the 2017 French elections. Once the current generation

Salient to Investors: Harry Dent writes: All the signs point to the end of the global bubble. The greatest trigger will be the bursting of the massive, unprecedented China bubble. China’s stock market loss of 35% in less than 30 days signals its stock bubble has peaked: a drop of 30% to 40%

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The Economist says Connecticut bankrolls the weaker states in America: 5% of their GDP over the last 20 years has been net income transfers to states like Mississippi and Alabama. Allen Cooperman says the nuclear deal will only take Iran from 2 months away

Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: Keynesian central banking has created a worldwide financial bubble. Soaring bond yields and the fear of losing debt market access are the one force that can cause governments to sober-up and acknowledge the facts. Reagan did not want Volcker to ease the intense upward pressure on interest rates and private

Salient to Investors: Christine Lagarde at the IMF said: The Fed should delay any rise in interest rates until 2016 and wait for more tangible signs of wage or price inflation. Pockets of vulnerability in the US economy could cause serious trouble for the wider economy. The IMF predicts US growth of 2.5%

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The IEA said Russia faces a perfect storm of collapsing oil prices, international sanctions and currency depreciation. The IMF predicts the Russian economy will contract by 3% in 2015. Putin does not respond to higher costs in a rational calculating manner. Military aid to